Good Morning and God Bless To Everyone !!!
Today is December 19, the 353rd day of 2013 and there are 12 days left this year and it is another blessed day in the work for our Lord at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
It’s another beautiful day here in Albuquerque where we’re at a nice 32 degrees this morning and a day full of sunshine is expected to provide us a high of 55 later today.
So, What Happened Today In 1998:
President Bill Clinton Is Impeached
After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.
In November 1995, Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern. Over the course of a year and a half, the president and Lewinsky had nearly a dozen sexual encounters in the White House. In April 1996, Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. That summer, she first confided in Pentagon co-worker Linda Tripp about her sexual relationship with the president. In 1997, with the relationship over, Tripp began secretly to record conversations with Lewinsky, in which Lewinsky gave Tripp details about the affair.
In December, lawyers for Paula Jones, who was suing the president on sexual harassment charges, subpoenaed Lewinsky. In January 1998, allegedly under the recommendation of the president, Lewinsky filed an affidavit in which she denied ever having had a sexual relationship with him. Five days later, Tripp contacted the office of Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, to talk about Lewinsky and the tapes she made of their conversations. Tripp, wired by FBI agents working with Starr, met with Lewinsky again, and on January 16, Lewinsky was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she was questioned and offered immunity if she cooperated with the prosecution. A few days later, the story broke, and Clinton publicly denied the allegations, saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”
In late July, lawyers for Lewinsky and Starr worked out a full-immunity agreement covering both Lewinsky and her parents, all of whom Starr had threatened with prosecution. On August 6, Lewinsky appeared before the grand jury to begin her testimony, and on August 17 President Clinton testified. Contrary to his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case, President Clinton acknowledged to prosecutors from the office of the independent counsel that he had had an extramarital affair with Ms. Lewinsky.
In four hours of closed-door testimony, conducted in the Map Room of the White House, Clinton spoke live via closed-circuit television to a grand jury in a nearby federal courthouse. He was the first sitting president ever to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct. That evening, President Clinton also gave a four-minute televised address to the nation in which he admitted he had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky. In the brief speech, which was wrought with legalisms, the word “sex” was never spoken, and the word “regret” was used only in reference to his admission that he misled the public and his family.
Less than a month later, on September 9, Kenneth Starr submitted his report and 18 boxes of supporting documents to the House of Representatives. Released to the public two days later, the Starr Report outlined a case for impeaching Clinton on 11 grounds, including perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering, and abuse of power, and also provided explicit details of the sexual relationship between the president and Ms. Lewinsky. On October 8, the House authorized a wide-ranging impeachment inquiry, and on December 11, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment. On December 19, the House impeached Clinton.
On January 7, 1999, in a congressional procedure not seen since the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the trial of President Clinton got underway in the Senate. As instructed in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (William Rehnquist at this time) was sworn in to preside, and the senators were sworn in as jurors.
Five weeks later, on February 12, the Senate voted on whether to remove Clinton from office. The president was acquitted on both articles of impeachment. The prosecution needed a two-thirds majority to convict but failed to achieve even a bare majority. Rejecting the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted “not guilty,” and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50. After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was “profoundly sorry” for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On December 19 In History:
1732 – Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia 1st published “Poor Richard’s Almanack”;
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes ‘American Crisis’ appearing on the pages of the Pennsylvania Journal for the 1st time;
1777 – Continental army under George Washington enters its winter camp at Valley Forge, 22 miles from British-occupied Philadelphia, Penn.;
1813 – British Forces capture Fort Niagara during the War of 1812;
1817 – Future Confederate General James Archer is born in Harford County Maryland;
1907 – 239 workers killed in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn.;
1910 – Artificial Rayon Fiber was 1st commercially produced in Marcus Hook, Penn.;
1915 – Following British defeat at the Battle of Loos in September, Sir Douglas Haig replaces Sir John French as commander-in-chief of British forces on the western front;
1941 – In a major shake-up of the military high command, Adolf Hitler assumes the position of commander-in-chief of the German army;
1946 – War breaks out as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi;
1964 – Bloodless coup topples the government in Saigon during Vietnam War;
1972 – Apollo 17 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean ending the last manned lunar landing mission;
1972 – North Vietnam’s foreign minister calls the new B-52 bombing raids against Hanoi & Haiphong “extremely barbaric” accusing the U.S. of premeditated intensification of the war labeling it “insane”;
1984 – In Beijing, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher & Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang sign agreement returning Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997;
1961 – British government begins using decimal coin system;
1988 – 5,000 people are evacuated when a WWII bomb is found in Frankfurt, Germany;
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes control of the Russian Kremlin;
2011 – North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il dies, Kim John Un is announced as his father’s successor.
Now We’re Off To The Fun Stuff
Today’s ‘Should We Re-Word That’ Headline:
“Kids Make Nutritious Snacks” – – (Do they taste anything like chicken?)
Today’s ‘Really?’ Sign:
Are you sure?
Today’s Christian Quote:
“If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.” – Phillips Brooks
Today’s Silly ?:
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Peruse – means to read or examine something with great care, checking all the details. Many people believe that peruse means to glance over something, but this is clearly not the case.
Today’s Brainy Quote:
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.” – Abraham Lincoln
Today’s Naughty Doggie Picture:
Today’s Patriot Quote:
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” – Edward Abbey
Today’s Inspirational Image:
UNTIL TOMORROW – GOD BLESS TO ALL !!!
